Master Plan Meeting on April 10

Mayor Brian Arrigo
encouraged residents and community members to attend an upcoming community
forum for the City’s master plan,Next Stop Revere. Following a widely-attended
kick-off event in January, the forum will be the first of two this spring and
gather the community’s goals and visions for housing, economic development and
historic and cultural resources. It will take place on Wednesday, April 10 from
6-8PM at Revere High School.

Attendees will have the
opportunity to provide input on future plans for housing, as well as how the
city should prioritize a range of economic development goals, including
increased access to regional job markets through transportation improvements,
support for small businesses, workforce development and job creation. They will
also be invited to provide their vision for key opportunity sites for
development, including: Wonderland, Waterfront Square , the former NECCO
factory and Caddy Farms. Light refreshments, child care and language
interpretation will be provided.

“We want the entire
community’s input on these topics that are so important to the future of the
city of Revere,” said Mayor Arrigo. “This master planning process gives us the
opportunity to define what our city will look like for future generations. Our
kick-off event showed us that so many community members are deeply invested in
the success of our city and I’m looking forward to continuing that conversation
next week.”

Next Stop Revere is the
city’s first comprehensive master plan in more than four decades. The City has
teamed with the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) for a six-month-long
community engagement process to inform policy, which will incorporate the
community’s vision for maintaining and improving quality of life, and will span
topics including housing, economic development, natural resources and open
space, as well as transportation, climate resiliency, land use and zoning. The
plan will identify a set of actions for the City to take over the next
10-20 years:
http://www.revere.org/departments/economic-development/next-stop-revere.html]

Following the two community forums this
spring, MAPC will continue to solicit and incorporate community feedback
through the summer and fall of 2019, with a final plan scheduled to be
presented to the City’s Planning Board in early 2020.